A warming shelter will be opening at noon today (Thursday, Jan. 8) in the basement of Cynthiana Christian Church, 202 N. Main St.

The shelter will be administered through Emergency Management, Red Cross and Search and Rescue.

According to Re'Jeana Craft, Harrison County Search and Rescue chief, the shelter will be for people to come in from the cold to get warm. No arrangements have been made to establish an overnight shelter at this time.

Hayden Joseph Bach was born Jan. 2, 2015 at Harrison Memorial Hospital. He is the son of Kaitlyn Bach of Carlisle, Ky. Dr. Gerald Harpel delivered the 7 lb., 2 oz. baby boy. Hayden and his mother received several gifts from the hospital, staff and sponsors.

On Jan. 19, the community will be celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Day with a March and special services. The March will start at 10 a.m. at Ebenezer United Methodist Church and return to this same location for the special services.

The guest speaker will be Terry Cunningham Jr. from Duncan Chapel United Methodist Church, Lexington, Ky., and a student from the Asbury Seminary in Nicholasville, Ky.

Mary-Katherine Hicks, a fourth grade student in Ginny Barnes’ Northside Elementary class, received a thank-you kiss from “Jill” on Tuesday morning. Animal Control Officer Alan Fryman took Jill and her brother, Jack, to school in appreciation of the students’ donations to the Flora Shropshire Animal Shelter. The students opted to make donations to the shelter instead of exchanging Christmas gifts at school. Fryman also had Duke, a rescued Great Dane, to greet the students.

A Harrison County man was arrested Tuesday afternoon on felony charges connected to a domestic violence incident in which he was alleged to have held a shotgun to his wife’s head and threatened to kill her.

Though eligible to serve as mayor pro-tem by virtue of having received the most votes in the general election, Commissioner Roger Slade declined consideration for the post and, instead, nominated Mark Mattmiller at a special called meeting of the city commission Friday afternoon.